Re: autoexpect on 5.0.7

From: Tom Parsons (sconews_at_tegan.com)
Date: 04/19/05

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    Tony Lawrence enscribed:
    | I'm sure I've used autoexpect on SCO systems in the past, but maybe not..
    |
    | I tried both versions from Skunkware. "autoexpect" by itself should,
    | for example, just show a shell prompt and continue from there. Instead,
    | everything seems to be buffered - which I expect autexpect to take care
    | of by itself.
    |
    | I've tried this on two systems now, same results. If I start autoexpect
    | somewhere else, I can ssh on into the SCO and everything is fine, but
    | not if I ssh in and start it there..

    I've some unexplained problems with expect and the lame 5.0.7 ssh but
    not like this.

    Could you be running afoul of the tcl/expect in /usr/gnu/bin? 

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